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Genus: Lyssomanes Hentz, 1845 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Lyssomanes elegans F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1900

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034306

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Described:

Distribution: Mexico to Ecuador and Brazil

External Resources*: Jumping Spiders of the World Metzner (2026) | Salticidae Database Prószyński (2025) | GBIF

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Naturhistorisches Museum, Basel (NMB), Switzerland (database search of type material, 08.04.2019) Lyssomanes wiedenmeyeri Schenkel, 1953, 1 m (NMB-ARAN-02278 a) -

Taxonomic References

Lyssomanes elegans F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1900: 186, pl. 12, f. 14, pl. 13, f. 12 (Df) Original description

Lyssomanes zeteki Chickering, 1946: 29, f, 12-15 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:061115]

Lyssomanes wiedenmeyeri Schenkel, 1953a: 47, f. 41 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:061114]

Lyssomanes wiedenmeyeri Galiano, 1962b: 93, pl. VIII, f. 1-4 (m)

Lyssomanes elegans Galiano, 1980a: 47, f. 117-118, 123-124 (mf, S of Lyssomanes wiedenmeyeri and L. zeteki)

Lyssomanes elegans Macías-Tulcán, Galvis & Molina-Moreira, 2023: 860, f. 6A-B (f)

References

Chickering, A. M. (1946). The Salticidae of Panama. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 97: 1-474. -- Show included taxa

Galiano, M. E. (1962b). Redescripciones de especies del género Lyssomanes Hentz, 1845, basadas en los ejemplares tipicos. Descripción du una especies nueva (Araneae, Salticidae). Acta Zoológica Lilloana 18: 45-97. -- Show included taxa

Galiano, M. E. (1980a). Revisión del género Lyssomanes Hentz, 1845 (Araneae, Salticidae). Opera Lilloana 30: 1-104. -- Show included taxa

Macías-Tulcán, M., Galvis, W. & Molina-Moreira, N. (2023). New species and records of jumping spiders from Ecuador (Araneae: Salticidae). Arachnology 19(5): 852-861. doi: 10.13156/arac.2023.19.5.852 -- Show included taxa

Pickard-Cambridge, F. O. (1900). Arachnida - Araneida and Opiliones. In: Biologia Centrali-Americana, Zoology. London 2, 89-192, pl. 6-15. [[for the exact dates see Lyal, 2011]] -- Show included taxa

Schenkel, E. (1953a). Bericht über einige Spinnentiere aus Venezuela. Verhandlungen der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Basel 64: 1-57. -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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Metzner, H. (2026). Jumping spiders (Arachnida: Araneae: Salticidae) of the world. Online at https://www.jumping-spiders.com.

Prószyński, J. (2025). Salticidae (Araneae) Genera of the World "a management tool for developing a new system of Salticidae" - a scrollable e-Textbook. Version December 20th, 2025, online at http://www.salticidae.pl.

GBIF.org (2026). GBIF Home Page (via GBIF API). Available from: https://www.gbif.org [8 January 2026]

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2023-07-02	New taxonomic reference entry	Macías-Tulcán, Galvis & Molina-Moreira, 2023
2023-07-02	Species distribution update	Macías-Tulcán, Galvis & Molina-Moreira, 2023	Old value